The UX of Your UX Portfolio & Career

What You’ll Learn

Identify your skills and strengths

Define your goals and values

Showcase your projects and process

Turn interviews into offers

Are you spinning your wheels over a portfolio? You are not alone. Developing a portfolio at any stage of a career can be exhausting and frustrating. What are hiring managers looking for? Are you communicating your strengths effectively? What does a good portfolio look like? You’ve put forward your best work, and yet you don’t feel like it’s landing the jobs you want.

UX educator Sarah Doody has spent years working with professionals in all stages of their career on critiquing and developing an effective portfolio. She’s interviewed hiring managers and recruiters. And she’s deconstructed the process for us to help professionals communicate their strengths effectively and shine. Sarah’s wise advice forms a framework for how to critically assess your work and avoid common mistakes.

Identify your skills and strengths

Treat your UX portfolio like a real UX project

Curate projects around the roles you want to grow into

Identify gaps in your experience

Define your goals and values

Identify values that matter to you and companies that align with those values

Showcase your projects and process

Choose projects that showcase your skills

Learn how to tell the story of your process

Create a clear “about” statement

Turn interviews into offers

Communicate your values and process

Show evidence of your skills

User experience professionals, designers, and anyone in need of wise counsel and firm advice on how to develop an effective portfolio will benefit from this seminar.

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Why Sarah ?

Sarah Doody is a User Experience Designer and Entrepreneur. She founded the popular weekly newsletter, The UX Notebook. She educates UX designers through her online courses and in-person workshops on topics including including user research, storyboarding, rapid prototyping, and creating a UX portfolio.

In 2011, she created the curriculum for and taught General Assembly’s first 12-week UX immersive, the genesis of their popular UX programs which are now taught worldwide.

Sarah is a contributing author to InVision, UX Magazine, UX Mastery, UX Matters, and has been published in the New York Times.